For each of the links listed below you will be taken to a separate web page
with information, external links, and aerial photos. Having a Connecticut
highway road map handy is also useful, as you see where in the state these roads
are. Many of them are in your own back yard, and you may even travel them daily!

Enjoy!

So how come there's a four-lane highway to Norwich and it just ENDS...?
CT 2 Expressway, From
Hartford to Colchester to Norwich to North Stonington

Why is there a four-lane ridge over the Thames River near Mohegan, obviously
built long before the casino was thought of?
CT 2A Expressway,
Expressway Extension from Route 2/I-395 to Preston

Why is there this super nice bridge across the CT River to Glastonbury, where
it just ENDS at Route 2?
CT 3 Expressway (I-491 and
I-86) proposed beltway around Hartford

There's another short section of highway off I-84 going towards Farmington.
What's with that?
CT 4 Expressway, From I-84
(at EXIT 39) with the proposed CT 10 Expressway in Farmington

Why does the 4-lane divided Super 7 just END at a light in Norwalk near the
DMV? Does it have anything to do with the part that passes by the Danbury
Airport that also just ends?
CT 7 Expressway, (aka
"Super 7" and I-284), from Norwalk through the Berkshires to
Burlington VT

Why does Winsted have this really nice 4-lane divided highway going to it,
where it also just ends there to a side road?
CT 8 Expressway , from
Bridgeport to the Mass Turnpike

What's this I hear that Route 9 in Connecticut was never completed as
planned?
CT 9 Expressway, from
Granby CT across a bridge to Greenport, Long Island

Why are there several spurs from major highways going to Route 10 along its
length? (40 connector off I-91, exit 29 off I-84, Rt 72 in Plainville, exit 39
off I-84just to name a few)
CT 10 Expressway, from New
Haven to the Massachusetts border

Why do Willow Street and Blatchley Avenue rate such large
entrance and exit ramps from I-91 in New Haven?CT 10A Expressway, from I-91 to Whitney Avenue, then on to
the CT 10 Expressway

What's the deal with Route 11? It REALLY ends literally in the middle of
nowhere (and there's obvious evidence of a continuing road cut system southwards
from it.)
CT 11 Expressway, from
Colchester to Waterford/New London

How did the Berlin Turnpike (Route 15) rate such a large spur off I-91 and a
large bridge as the Charter Oak Bridge?
CT 15 Expressway,
("I-484" Charter Oak Bypass), between Berlin Turnpike and I-84

I noticed that Route 17 south from Glastonbury also has a four-lane spur off
Route 2, and a matching one off Route 9. How come?
CT 17 Expressway, from
Glastonbury to Middletown

Bradley is a large airport, but the Connector is never really busy. Is there
another reason for that four-lane highway?
CT 20 Expressway (CT 140),
from Granby, past Bradley Airport, to Vernon

Boy, there must be some important folks living in Stepney to rate a four-lane
highway to their doorstep. Or is there another reason for the Route 25 highway?
CT 25 Expressway, from
Bridgeport to I-84 in Newtown

Why are there sections of Route 32 4-lane in the middle of nowhere?CT 32 Expressway, From exit 84 in New London to I-84 in Willington

Seems rather odd that four-lane Route 34 ends under a parking garage in
downtown New Haven. Did that building get dropped there by a UFO or something?
CT 34 Expressway, from New
Haven to Derby, then on to "Super 7" in Ridgefield and NY Route 35

Here's another strange one: the "40 Connector" off I-91 to Route 10
in Mt. Carmel. Gotta be a good explanation for that one...
CT 40 Expressway, from CT
10 Expressway to I-95 in Branford

There is a rather large bridge over the CT River, connecting Suffield to
Enfield. I'm sure those guys like each other, but why build that bridge in the
middle of nowhere?
CT 190 Expressway
(Thompsonville Bridge), from I-91 in Enfield west to CT 75 in Suffield,
continuing to the CT 20 Expressway

Interstate 95,
"The Connecticut Turnpike", aka "Governor John Davis Lodge
Turnpike", aka New England Thruway, aka "The Greenwich-Killingly Expressway"
(new residents may not even know it used to
have tolls along its length...)